September 6, 2011

Hey family,well this week the email wont be very long because we are in a mall and they wont let us use an hour and fifteen minutes like we should have.. so i only have an hour to write yall and president watts.. but yeah i am in coban now as a zone leader.. i am excited because my comp elder jensen is really cool and ive known him for a while.. we are having fun and working hard.. my area borders carcha.. haha so i am not too far away just like 10 min.. its cool though because i see people from carcha that i know in coban all the time.. and i will see all the members for general conference next month.. so anyway right now i am in the capital because we have counsel tomorrow with the other zone leaders and assistants and pres watts.. we have counsel every month so i will be coming down here every month now until probably the end of my mission.. its fun but the bus ride is terrible.. it was maybe the worst two hours of my life.. on a bus without a c and i could not sleep and the road is super windy.. i thought i was going to throw up and at the same time i was sweating like crazy.. it wasnt fun but looking back a good story..sorry i dont have pics this week.. next week ill send yall some.. so i have a cell phone as a zl and also we have a queen sized beds.. its legit.. haha umm its crazy though.. last week we had to send elders out to polochic peten and the cap and baja verapaz.. so one night we had 15 elders in our house.. we had to wake up at 1 to send one to the cap.. then four in the morning to send some off to polochic and peten.. in all i havent slept hardly at all this last week... also today we played ball with the assistants and other elders in a court inside a church.. it was legit besides we woke up at 430!! i was playing really good though and everybody was impressed with my hang time and how i can finish.. haha it was fun and the elders we played with were really good too. like one is going to play d1 at utah valley university when he gets back.. anyway so i am dead tired.. umm what else.. i still dont know a lot of the investigators in our area but we had a family go to church for the first time on sunday and its a family of 8 with 6 possible baptisms.. we fasted for them last weekend.. and we had a lesson with them.. they had a lot of ?s which is good.. then we invited them to church and they said theyd come later at 10.. so we were just about to start and then guess who showed up.. they did and even before we had started sac meeting.. it was really cool and they liked it a lot and i know it was answer to our prayers and fast..if they go to church again this sunday we are going to put baptismal dates with them!! anyway please pray for them.. and yeah thats pretty much it.. nothing else has happened.. we are going bowling as soon as we finish this then to chilis to eat.. but yeah thanks as always for yall prayers.. keep going forward with faith and God will bless yall not only with temporal things but also spiritual things which are the most important things we can have..anyway have a good week and i love yall a ton!!elder hatch